AIHuman extinction and widespread harm in the AI safety debate
A commentary argues for separating the theory that superintelligent AI will inevitably wipe out humanity from the prospect of powerful AI causing widespread harm.
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A commentary argues that two ideas often get confused: the theory that AI smarter than any human will inevitably cause human extinction, and the prospect of powerful AI causing severe harm to many or possibly all people. It calls for considering them separately. The commentary quotes a researcher who announced on September 9 that they had resigned from Anthropic. The researcher said they had spent the past three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, and accused both companies of acting irresponsibly by racing toward self-improving superintelligence.
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Human extinction and widespread harm in the AI safety debate
A commentary argues for separating the theory that superintelligent AI will inevitably wipe out humanity from the prospect of powerful AI causing widespread harm.